From our famous focaccia and dipping oil, to our legendary pizza, salads, and sandwiches, we offer something for everyone at Not Your Average Joe's. Come in for fan favorites like our Mustard Crusted Chicken or Steak Tips, stay for the extended list of wines, craft beer, and crafted cocktails. We serve an extensive gluten free menu, happy hour, weekend brunch, and have full-service lunch and dinner 7 days a week in the dining room or bar area.

Not Your Average Joe's Acton is a family-style restaurant that offers a bar area, main dining room, and wide array of seating options from high tops to booths to community tables. Conveniently located near the Acton Bowladrome & Arcade and Roche Brothers Acton, there are places to shop and play for the whole family nearby. For lovers of the outdoors, stop in to see us after an afternoon at the Acton Arboretum, Great Hill Recreation Area, Nashoba Brook, or a wide variety of other nearby parks and conservation lands.

Whether celebrating a special occasion with family and friends or hosting a corporate event, Not Your Average Joe's - Acton can accommodate all of your special event needs. Choose from three different Prix Fixe lunch and dinner menus, or order à La Carte!

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Private party contact

Gregg Whiting: (855) 781-0580

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Catering

We over our XL Style Party menu for large orders for the office, team, or whole family! Visit us online to see all of our menus, including our Party Menu!

We host all different events for the Peabody community! Happy hours? Check. Baby shower? Done. Engagement party? You got it! Give us a call, and let us know what you're looking for, and we'll figure out how we can help. We offer catering, are great for birthdays, and have a host of allergy-friendly options for anyone in your group.

We also host our own special events throughout the year as well! From wine dinners to fundraisers, beer dinners to brunches, we have it all. Check back on our website event page or on here to stay up to date on all of our upcoming special events!

house made with quinoa, sweet potato, roasted mushrooms and black beans, topped with pickled red cabbage and guacamole on a toasted multigrain roll with mixed greens or hand cut fries

$11.99

Backyard Burger

served on a toasted roll with choice of cheese, mixed greens or hand-cut fries

$12.99

With Cheese and Country Bacon

$12.99

Sweet Blue Burger

with blue cheese, country bacon, caramelized onions and arugula on a toasted roll with mixed greens or hand-cut fries

Stone Hearth Pizza

The best pizza (meaning ours) starts with stone-ground flour from italy, made-from-scratch sauce from imported tomatoes and all natural mozzarella. We hand-form the dough, top it and bake it in our 700º stone-hearth oven

Hot Drinks

$3.59

Cappuccino

espresso with steamed and frothed milk, soy or 2%

$2.59

Espresso

the perfect pick-me-up

$2.99

Cup of Joe-Bottomless

freshly brewed - regular joe or decaf

$2.99

Tea

a nice selection of tazo teas

This item may be cooked to order. Consuming raw or undercooked meats, poultry, seafood, shellfish or eggs may increase your risk of foodborne illness, especially if you have certain medical conditions. Unless you request otherwise, we will cook your burger medium well. Vegetarian: items can be prepared vegetarian. Gluten Free: gluten-free version available

Starters

From every corner of the globe with our local twist. Made from scratch in a kitchen where a chef presides

$10.99

Cheese Steak Egg Rolls

thinly sliced sirloin, caramelized onions, provolone and american cheeses in a crispy egg roll wrapper, served with spicy chinese mustard

Served on a toasted roll with choice of cheese, mixed greens or hand-cut fries. Our burger is a custom blend ground to our persnickety specs and hand-formed in our kitchen

$12.99

With Cheese and Country Bacon

$12.99

Sweet Blue Burger

With blue cheese, country bacon, caramelized onions and arugula on a toasted roll with mixed greens or hand-cut fries. Our burger is a custom blend ground to our persnickety specs and hand-formed in our kitchen

$12.29

Grilled Cheese & Tomato Soup

a velvety trio of cheeses griddled between slices of vermont white bread, served with a cup of tomato-basil soup

$12.59

Smoked Turkey Club

applewood smoked turkey and country bacon with lettuce, tomato and rosemary mayo on toasted vermont white bread, served with a choice of mixed greens or hand-cut fries

Stone Hearth Pizza

The best pizza (meaning ours) starts with stone-ground flour from italy, made-from-scratch sauce from imported tomatoes and all natural mozzarella. We hand-form the dough, top it and bake it in our 700º stone-hearth oven

Hot Drinks

$3.59

Cappuccino

espresso with steamed and frothed milk, soy or 2%

$2.59

Espresso

the perfect pick-me-up

$2.99

Cup of Joe-Bottomless

freshly brewed - regular joe or decaf

$2.99

Tea

a nice selection of tazo teas

This item may be cooked to order. Consuming raw or undercooked meats, poultry, seafood, shellfish or eggs may increase your risk of foodborne illness, especially if you have certain medical conditions. Unless you request otherwise, we will cook your burger medium well. Vegetarian: items can be prepared vegetarian. Gluten Free: gluten-free version available

Half Price | Full Portion | Happy Hour. Monday-Friday, 3-6pm Available in the Bar Area Only

Appetizers

$5.39

Buffalo Caribbean Chicken Tenders

$6.69

Ahi Tuna Wontons

$5.49

Forno-Baked Chicken Quesadilla

$6.19

Shrimp and Vegetable Tempura

$5.99

Bacon Leek Flatbread

$4.49

Chicken Dumplings

$4.99

Nacho Average Nachos

$5.29

Thai Chicken Lettuce Wraps

$6.49

New England-Style Crab Cakes

$5.49

Cheese Steak Egg Rolls

This item may be cooked to order. Consuming raw or undercooked meats, poultry, seafood, shellfish or eggs may increase your risk of foodborne illness, especially if you have certain medical conditions. Unless you request otherwise, we will cook your burger medium well

Joe thinks gluten intolerance shouldn't stand between you and a great meal. Each meal begins with joe's legendary dip and gluten-free bread

Starters

$10.59

Thai Chicken Lettuce Wraps

served chilled with fresh oranges, carrots and crunchy peanuts in an orange-sesame vinaigrette

This item may be cooked to order. Consuming raw or undercooked meats, poultry, seafood, shellfish or eggs may increase your risk of foodborne illness, especially if you have certain medical conditions. Unless you request otherwise, we will cook your burger medium-well. Vegetarian: can be prepared vegetarian

Served from 11 am to 4 pm

Main

$11.99

Brioche French Toast

hand-cut brioche, soaked in egg custard, golden-browned and served with cinnamon butter and candied pecans with a side of local maple syrup (guaranteed mind-blower)

Eggs Benedict

poached eggs over sautéed spinach on a toasted english muffin, topped with house-made hollandaise and served with home fries

$12.99

Italian Cotto Ham

$13.99

Kendall Brook Smoked Salmon

$11.99

Vegetarian Version Extra Spinach

$9.99

Bloody Mary Madness

What makes a Blood Mary crazy-good? You do. Just pick the ingredients that appeal to your wildest wishes, and we'll put your concoction together

Starters

From every corner of the globe with our local twist. Made from scratch in a kitchen where a chef presides

$10.99

Cheese Steak Egg Rolls

thinly sliced sirloin, caramelized onions, provolone and american cheeses in a crispy egg roll wrapper, served with spicy chinese mustard

Stone Hearth Pizza

The best pizza (meaning ours) starts with stone-ground flour from italy, made-from-scratch sauce from imported tomatoes and all natural mozzarella. We hand-form the dough, top it and bake it in our 700º stone-hearth oven

This item may be cooked to order. Consuming raw or undercooked meats, poultry, seafood, shellfish or eggs may increase your risk of foodborne illness, especially if you have certain medical conditions. Unless you request otherwise, we will cook your burger medium well. Vegetarian: items can be prepared vegetarian. Gluten Free: gluten-free version available

Lunch

$23 per person. Includes our famous house made focaccia bread and soda or iced tea

Made a reservation here for a Friday night, great that you can do that here, it's always crowded and usually a wait. Cocktails very good but long wait for them on a busy Friday. Salmon special with mashed sweet potato was excellent, my husband had the scallops which he enjoyed. We both had salads, mine was delicious with toasted goat cheese. Bread as usual was great dipped in garlic/oil/parm. We did share a slice of key lime pie which was delicious. They emailed me a $10 off coupon so worth signing up! We will come back as we always do!

This restaurant is a favorite for my partner and me. On this occasion, however, I was there to catch up with a few old friends.

What I like is that the menu is frequently updated with seasonal items, so it's hard to get bored. And the menu is pretty wide-ranging. In this case I had the jambalaya, which was spicy without being overbearing, and extremely flavorful. Unfortunately, one of my dinner companions was not excited about her scallops, and ate less than half of the plate. For what it's worth, she ordered it without the normal bacon, which may have contributed to the disappointing taste.

Three of us split the flourless chocolate torte, which was just enough to seal the meal with chocolate (a definite necessity) without needless excess.

Service was prompt and friendly, and the server tolerated all the delays while we chatted rather than attended to the menu.

Haven't been to Joe's in a while, so I was looking forward to seeing how it was. The food is always Dependable - really good, not horribly creative, but you can always count on getting a good bang for your buck. Drinks are always great too. Our waitress was a little snippy, but we can deal with that. Saturday nights are very busy, and I'm sure she was a bit overwhelmed. We love Joe's, and we will be back.

We usually have good things to say about NYAJ’s, we always like to come here but this time our service was terrible. Our waitress didn’t bring water, there were dirty bread plates, drink orders were wrong THREE times and she was rude.

Great food, plenty of gluten free options available, including desserts! Attentive wait staff were very helpful and service was fast. The only drawback is the noise level during the main meal hours. It's very loud and often very hard to hear your own conversation.

I don't know what is going on with NYAJ's, but it is getting worse every time we go there, and we typically go twice a week...... Up until recently because the food has gone down hill dramatically. First of all, it takes forEVER to get your food (didn't used to) and it just is NOT good. I had the salmon yesterday, with cold mashed sweet potatoes and spinach that was dripping in oil and way overdone. Nothing on that menu tastes good anymore. I have gone so far as to send a "private note" to joe's and got no response. just don't get it. I think it has something to do with who is in/managing the kitchen. We see no reason to go back which is too bad as for years it was our go-to place.

Have been to this restaurant many times and enjoy the food and atmosphere however on this night the restaurant was very cold. I mentioned to this to our waitress and she said its 73 in here. Had to put on my coat and the food cooled very fast. Will not rush back during the winter months.

Food was not particularly interesting. Very limited vegetarian options. My wife had a badly upset stomach afterwards which we think might have been due to the lukewarm veggie burger. She called the manager next day and received only the response "All our food is prepared fresh". Service was very pleasant. Pricing rather high for the standard of food.

My girlfriend and I took a long break from NYAJ. The last time we dined here we waited forever for service after our long wait things we wanted were not available, tonight was the polar opposite. Service was lightning quick, food and drinks came out quickly. We are firmly back on the NYAJ train.

The food and service were both very good. The atmosphere was not. There was a very loud table nearby. They were yelling across the restaurant to another table celebrating a birthday. When we asked to be moved to a quieter section our server found us another seat. However, I would have expected the manager to ask the group to quiet down or acknowledge to the other diners that that's not the atmosphere that NYAJ's is happy with.

The Herb Crusted Haddock was very good - always dependable. FF’s were soggy, Herb Carrots didn’t seem fully cooked and were tasteless – won’t order those again. The lemon tart was just average – still miss the Molten Chocolate Cake with sauce and berries. Otherwise good family restaurant.

We've dined at this restaurant many times and always had a delicious meal. This time both of us had the same dish, the mustard crusted chicken, and it was delicious. I am very disappointed that you have discontinued the onion strings as a side dish. Big mistake.

Services was so slow and the restaurant was not full. Waitress never offered refills. Food had clearly sat under heating lamps for many minutes before it came out. Chicken was dry. Waitress didn't even come back for the payment, thank goodness we had enough cash so we could pay and leave.

Very disappointed. For reservation, i asked about celebrating birthday for my friend and why we chose this location was convenience. The restaurant forgot about the birthday celebration which is very unfortunate. The sirloin tips were to be cooked medium and instead were burnt and lacked flavor. The rice pilaf isn’t what it is and instead was a hard clump of yellow rice. Not pleased and won’t go here again. There would be no reason for me to refer this restaurant.

have been long time patron since opening. Live and work nearby. Last few months showed decline in service, food and takeout ( which we used t do a lot) Last Holiday lunch with my office staff was not that great. Cold air was blowing at us ( it is winter) New manager ( I have not seen him before) was not pleasant and used condescendent tone . Waitress disappeared all together although it was late lunch hour by then and the place got empty. We chased her down finally after long wait and she just immediately brought out our check without us requesting it and did not offer coffee,/dessert at all.

When we came for dinner, our waitress wouldn't let me finish a sentence when trying to order our drinks. Then gave me a hard time about not eating my whole dinner when both my husband and I felt off about the meal. It sent my husband straight to the bathroom and she didn't really care that we were there until it came time to pay the bill in which she loomed to see what we would tip. It was VERY uncomfortable. I don't know if I'd be back again. When you go to dinner, you expect friendly service, not to be treated like we weren't there. Even dodged us when we looked right at her and when she asked if we needed anything, she just walked away as we were trying to let her know what we needed. We ordered another drink that never came to the table. It was just very uncomfortable as we have been there before with no issue whatsoever. We had to have a manager track her down so we could pay our bill.

Food was quite good (as usual!), though one of the dishes was a bit salty for us. Our server was friendly, quick to get answers to our questions if he didn't know, and checked on us periodically. The sangria had some added spices that gave it a nice twist for winter. The atmosphere was lively, but not annoyingly loud. It was a nice night out for a casual meal.

Food is consistently tasty, hot, and well portioned. Best veggie burger I've had in a long time! Delicious bread and oil dip to start. Reasonably priced. Great server. Our go-to for a pleasant, no-fuss evening out locally.